Jazz Articles about Gecko Turner

Gecko Turner: Guapapasea!

by Chris M. Slawecki
April 28, 2006

Maybe it's because I grew up around Philadelphia through the 1970s, but I always remember soul music around--soul music light enough to dance like a butterfly on a breeze yet knee-deep enough in the funk that one could dive in and swim. Its charm was easy to recognize and feel, but hard to describe and define.

Gecko Turner's Guapapasea! feels like one of those great breezy soul records. It comes from Spain via his nimble twelve-piece Afrobeatnik Orchestra, ...